An issue noted where you found it
Tap Issue and a line opens for the note. Here the bathroom fan was still not running, and the result at the top of the checklist counted it as one issue.
Know every home is looked after
Walk each inspection on your phone and rate every check as you go. Log anything that needs fixing as a repair for your own contractor, and date the next visit before you leave, with a reminder before it is due.
What you stop doing on an inspection day
LetCompliance is a property inspection app for UK landlords that runs in the phone’s browser. The landlord books the visit and emails each household written notice of its date and time. On the day the landlord walks a seventeen-point checklist, marking each item pass, issue or not applicable, then adds up to 20 photos, each rated excellent to poor. The report sets the visit beside the last one and can be emailed to the tenants.
17checks on every visit
Remembering what to look for
Alarms, heating, damp and mould, the fabric of the home and who is living there, in four groups, each answered pass, issue or not applicable. A question of your own is asked on every visit after.
Typing it up that evening
The report is built from what you tapped, your notes and the photos you rated, and it sets this visit’s result beside the last one’s, so a home sliding from good to fair shows. Download it, or email it to the tenants from the app.
Ringing round for a time
Book the visit and send each household its date and time in writing, with replies coming back to you, and the booking shows in their portal. A round of up to 30 visits is planned on one screen, and the day sheet prints in time order.
Losing track of which home is due
Every home sits on one list with its next visit, or No visits yet where nobody has been. Set the next date as you finish and you are emailed 30 days and 7 days before it is due, and again if it slips.
One walk round 14 Larch Avenue, on the landlord’s phone
The Log a visit form in the sample account, as it opens and as it read once the walk round was tapped in on 18 Oct 2026. The visit itself is booked for 10 November, and Megan Price, the tenant, was told in writing on 17 October.
The fan was already a repair. Megan reported it from her portal on 17 October and the next morning it went to Sam Oake, the electrician in the landlord’s contractors list, so the note from the walk and the job sit on the same property.
Every other check, one tap each
Each item starts unanswered and nothing is ticked for you, so the record only says what you checked. Both alarms were tested and passed.
The next visit set before you leave
With no next date the form says reminders only come for a date you set. One tap on Set 6 months fills it, and the overall condition is yours to choose.
How an inspection runs, from booking to the next one
Four steps: planned on a computer or a phone, and walked on the phone on the day.
Book the visit and tell the tenants
Pick the date and time, or plan a day of visits, and email each household written notice with the date and time. The send is kept on the record, and a visit under 24 hours away is flagged.
Walk the checklist on your phone
Seventeen checks in four groups, each pass, issue or not applicable, with a note on anything wrong. Questions of your own are asked every time.
Save it, then add the photos
Up to 20 a visit, taken there and then or chosen several at a time from the gallery, each rated excellent, good, fair or poor.
Share the report and set the next one
Download the PDF or email it to the tenants. Set the next date and you are reminded 30 days and 7 days before it is due.
A planned day starts at 10:00 with 45 minutes a visit, both yours to change, and warns about a visit outside 08:00 to 20:00, the app’s guide to a reasonable time of day rather than a rule in law.
An inspection sits on the same property as everything else
So what you find on a visit reaches the repair and the tenant without being typed twice.
Repairs and your contractors
Log anything that needs fixing as a repair on the property and send it to a contractor from your own list, who quotes and updates the job from an emailed link with no login.
Sample account with made-up details, 18 Oct 2026 The tenant portal
Tenants see each inspection recorded on the home, and any visit booked, under the line that they will always get at least 24 hours’ written notice. They report repairs, message you and send meter readings from the same portal, with no password.
Sample account with made-up details, 17 Oct 2026 Check-in and check-out inventories
At the start and the end of a tenancy the inventory goes room by room and item by item, each line rated with its own photos, and the check-out is compared with the check-in. On every paid plan, from Single, and in the trial.
Sample account with made-up details, 17 Oct 2026 Houses in multiple occupation
One inspection covers the whole house, which counts as one property on the plan price however many rooms are let. Every current tenant with an email address is told of the visit, and the checklist ends on who is living there.
Sample account with made-up details, 18 Oct 2026
From £7.99 a month, and nothing per inspection
Inspections, the day planner, the photos and the reports are on every plan. Plans are one price for each size of portfolio, never a charge per property, visit or report.
What a property inspection app should do for a landlord
A property inspection app records what a rented home looked like on the day of a visit: what was checked, what was wrong, the photos and when the tenant was told. Used on the phone during the walk round, it replaces the notebook, the camera roll and the report typed up that evening.
The same checklist every time
Alarms, heating, damp and mould, the fabric and who is living there are asked on every visit, so two visits a year apart can be read side by side. A question of your own is added once and asked from then on.
Only the answers you gave
Every item starts unanswered and only what you tap is saved, so the record never says a check was done, or did not apply, when nobody looked.
Photos rated one by one
Up to 20 a visit from the camera or the gallery, each with its own rating, so a damp corner can read poor while the rest of the home reads good. Each one is dated as it lands on the visit.
The tenant told in writing
Book the visit and email each household the date and time, with your address to reply to. The send and the hours of notice it gave are kept in your activity log, and the booking shows when they were told.
A report the tenant can have
The PDF lists every answer and note, the photos with their ratings and the date of the next visit, and puts the result beside the previous visit’s. Email it from the app to every current tenant with an email address on file.
The phone in your pocket
It runs in the browser, so the landlord app on your phone needs nothing downloaded, and the same record is open on a computer when you get home.
How often can a landlord inspect, and how much notice is needed?
The rules for a private let in England, each read at its source. Wales and Scotland have rules of their own.
Notice before you go in
At least 24 hours’ notice in writing to the people living there, for a visit at a reasonable time of day. Section 11(6) lets the landlord, or someone they authorise in writing, enter on those terms to view the condition and state of repair.
Source: Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, section 11(6) (opens in a new tab)
How often
No law sets a number of visits. GOV.UK tells tenants they should give the landlord access to inspect, with at least 24 hours’ notice at a reasonable time of day unless it is an emergency, and that they have the right to live in the property undisturbed. When visiting too often becomes a problem is covered in the guide to landlord access and the 24-hour rule.
Source: GOV.UK, Private renting: your rights and responsibilities (opens in a new tab)
Smoke and carbon monoxide alarms
A smoke alarm on each storey with a room used as living accommodation, and a carbon monoxide alarm in any such room with a fixed combustion appliance other than a gas cooker. Each is checked in working order on the day a new tenancy begins, and repaired or replaced once a tenant reports it not working. Where each alarm goes is covered in full.
Source: The Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015, regulation 4 (opens in a new tab)
Fit to live in
The home must be fit for human habitation when the tenancy begins and stay fit for the whole of it, and under section 11 the landlord keeps the structure, the heating, the hot water and the sanitation in repair. A visit is how a slow problem such as damp and mould is found while it is small.
Source: Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, section 9A (opens in a new tab)
Houses in multiple occupation
The manager keeps every means of escape from fire clear of obstruction and in good repair, and keeps fire alarms and fire fighting equipment in good working order. The fire door rules for HMOs go further.
Read on GOV.UK and legislation.gov.uk on 18 Oct 2026. This is not legal advice.
What inspections cost: an agent, a spreadsheet or an app
Full management, where an agent runs the let, costs 12% to 21.6% of the rent on agents’ own lists. A spreadsheet and a camera cost nothing, but nobody is reminded and the report is typed by hand. LetCompliance is priced by portfolio size, never per property, from £7.99 a month, with every inspection included. To see what an agent would take from your own rent, use the letting agent fee calculator. What other inspection and inventory apps charge, each from its own pricing page, is set out in the best property inspection and inventory apps, compared.
A letting agent
- What it costs
- 12% to 21.6% of the rent
- Who visits
- The agent
- How the tenant is told
- By the agent
- What is kept on record
- The report the agent sends you
A spreadsheet
- What it costs
- Nothing
- Who visits
- You
- How the tenant is told
- A text or a letter you write
- What is kept on record
- Your notes and a camera roll
LetCompliance
- What it costs
- From £7.99 a month for one property
- Who visits
- You, on your phone
- How the tenant is told
- Written notice by email, the send kept
- What is kept on record
- The checklist, the rated photos, the report and the next date
Property inspection questions, answered
Straight answers on notice, how often, what to check and what it costs.
Still have a question?
What is a property inspection app?
An app for recording a visit to a rented home while you walk round it: what you checked, what was wrong, the photos and when the tenant was told. LetCompliance runs in your phone’s browser with nothing to download, and each visit sits on the property’s own record.
How often can a landlord inspect a property?
No law sets a number of visits. GOV.UK tells tenants they should give the landlord access to inspect, with at least 24 hours’ notice and at a reasonable time of day unless it is an emergency, and that they have the right to live in the property undisturbed. Set the next date as you finish each visit, and you are reminded 30 days and 7 days before it is due.
How much notice does a landlord have to give for an inspection?
At least 24 hours’ notice in writing, for a visit at a reasonable time of day: section 11(6) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985. The Act does not set the hours. LetCompliance emails each household the date and time, keeps the send on the record, and warns about a visit under 24 hours away or outside 08:00 to 20:00, which is the app’s own guide to a reasonable time.
Can a tenant refuse an inspection?
GOV.UK tells tenants they should give the landlord access to inspect or carry out repairs, on at least 24 hours’ notice at a reasonable time of day, and also that they have the right to live in the property undisturbed. If a tenant asks for another time, agree one and give notice again for it from the booked visit: the booking moves to the time they were told.
What should a landlord check during an inspection?
The standard checklist asks seventeen questions in four groups: safety (smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, the electrics, escape routes, heating and hot water), damp, mould and ventilation (damp, extractor fans, leaks), the condition of the home (windows and doors, your appliances, the roof and gutters, other disrepair, the garden) and the tenancy (smoking, pets, people living there who are not on the tenancy, how the home is kept). Questions of your own are added on top and asked on every visit after.
Can I inspect several properties on the same day?
Yes. Plan a day: pick the date, tick the homes, nearby ones grouped by postcode district, and fill the times in order from the first visit. Up to 30 visits are booked at once, each household is emailed written notice of its own time, and the day sheet prints in time order with each address, the tenants and their phone numbers.
How many photos can I add to an inspection?
Up to 20 a visit, added once the visit is saved: take them there and then, or choose several at a time from the phone’s gallery afterwards. Each one gets its own rating: excellent, good, fair or poor.
Can I send the inspection report to my tenant?
Yes. The PDF can be downloaded, or emailed from the app to every current tenant with an email address on file, from you by name, with replies coming back to you. Tenants also see each recorded visit and its overall condition in their portal; the photos stay with you.
Does it work for HMO inspections?
Yes. One inspection covers the whole house, and an HMO counts as one property on the plan price however many rooms are let. Written notice of the visit goes to every current tenant in the house with an email address on file, and the checklist asks about escape routes, fire doors that close properly and people living there who are not on a tenancy.
How much does property inspection software cost?
Inspections, the day planner and the reports are on every plan, priced by portfolio size, never per inspection: £7.99 a month for one property (Single), £14.99 for up to 3 (Solo), £19 for up to 10 (Portfolio), £29 for up to 20 (Portfolio Plus) and £49 for any number (Professional), with no VAT added. Agency workspaces start at £24 a month, with unlimited seats on every plan. New landlord accounts start with a 3-day trial and agency workspaces with a 14-day trial, with no card.
Can I use LetCompliance without a paid plan?
The free plan is £0 for one property and keeps rent tracked on the tenancy with receipts, the tenant portal with repairs, the certificate dates with email reminders and the 0 to 100 compliance score. Making Tax Digital and Direct Debit collection need Single.
